$2.5 Million Collections Embrace One of many Largest Choices Ever of Burgundy’s Famed Domaine Armand Rousseau
September twenty ninth – (NAPA, Calif)—WineBid, the biggest and longest-running on-line wine public sale on the planet, will current two of the biggest single cellar collections in its 25-year historical past. Every cellar is valued at greater than US $1.25 million, and every was amassed in Europe and cellared in skilled storage services.
Coming to public sale on Sunday, October 2nd is a 700+ bottle assortment of Domaine Armand Rousseau, the 100-year-old Burgundy producer whose bottlings are among the many most coveted and collectible wines on the planet. This uncommon choice comes from the personal cellar of a European collector who has collected a outstanding cache of wines from Burgundy’s most interesting estates.
The extraordinary Armand Rousseau assortment is featured in WineBid’s France Direct program, the place the wines are completely inspected and saved in Beaune and are then provided in WineBid’s international on-line public sale from there. Moreover, as a part of its “Direct Launch” program, the wines within the Armand Rousseau assortment may be picked up in France or shipped immediately from France to different components of the EU, UK, or Asia. This program is primarily designed for collectors within the UK, EU, Hong Kong, Japan, and different Asian international locations who need to obtain their wines extra shortly than having them aggregated after which forwarded from WineBid’s Napa facility.
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The second assortment, presently accessible for instant buy in WineBid’s Purchase Now part, was collected by a distinguished French collector over a few years and saved in a temperature and humidity-controlled Swiss vault. The 1,000+ bottle assortment consists of First Development Bordeaux, Chateau d’Yquem, and Grand Cru Burgundy in addition to extremely collectible Rhone wines and Champagne introduced in banded instances, massive format bottles, and single bottles. This assortment has already been fastidiously transported, inspected, and photographed at WineBid’s Napa Valley facility.
“These sorts of single cellar wine collections are even rarer than the spectacular wines they function, and we’re extraordinarily proud to offer them on behalf of the 2 events who painstakingly put them collectively,” mentioned Russ Mann, CEO of WineBid. “Collectors like these acknowledge WineBid as the perfect useful resource to achieve a world viewers of the following era of wine collectors and traders.”
WineBid conducts weekly on-line auctions that embody between 6,000 and 10,000 heaps every. Auctions run from Sunday night to Sunday night and embody essentially the most collectible and investment-grade wines accessible in addition to reasonably priced rarities. WineBid has attracted over 140,000 registered bidders worldwide. Its international crew {of professional} wine inspectors and account managers permits it to work intently with consignors internationally and produce collections to public sale shortly.
WineBid CEO Russ Mann is offered for interviews and touch upon the collections and the present wine public sale market by contacting Tom Wark.
